June 1, 2005

Developments

Borrower Beware

Jun 1, 2005 12:00 PM, Frank Skinner

The Winecoff Hotel in downtown Atlanta was, for decades, the most glamorous and famous hotel in the South. It's where Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh and other...

DILLARD-WINECOFF VS. INTERBANK FUNDING

Jun 1, 2005 12:00 PM

April 1998 Interbank offers Dillard-Winecoff (DW) a 6-month, $1.8 million loan for the purchase of the historic Winecoff Hotel. December 1998 The 6-month...

Going Coastal

Jun 1, 2005 12:00 PM, Parke Chapman

Sam Zell launched his storied real estate career in Ann Arbor, Mich., flipping apartment buildings in the 1960s. Since then, Chicago-based Zell has bought...

Q & A

Jun 1, 2005 12:00 PM, Matt Valley

The shopping center sector is still reaping the rewards of intense investor interest in real estate, but overarching questions still remain about the...

Savings Under the Sun

Jun 1, 2005 12:00 PM, Henry Springs

Escalating energy costs are driving the development of new solar technologies, and the Vista Montana apartment complex in Watsonville, Calif., is testing...

Let the Good Times Roll

Jun 1, 2005 12:00 PM, Parke Chapman

This may be the best time to own a stabilized U.S. hotel property in five years. Fundamentals are improving fast, low interest rates continue to buoy...

Columns

Reforming Fannie and Freddie

Jun 1, 2005 12:00 PM, By Parke Chapman

Given the accounting scandals at both Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, it's no great shock that the two companies are bracing for increased regulatory oversight....

A recipe sure to end the real estate boom

Jun 1, 2005 12:00 PM, By Anthony Downs

Since 2000, U.S. real estate markets have experienced a great rise in property prices. This first occurred in spite of high vacancy rates and low rents,...

Why liquidity should help you sleep better

Jun 1, 2005 12:00 PM, By Kingsley Greenland

As the good times continue to roll in commercial real estate, a liquidity squeeze may be the furthest thing from anyone's mind. But could it happen again?...

Cap-rate compression puts the squeeze on investors

Jun 1, 2005 12:00 PM, Matt Valley Editor

Deal heat is an expression that Jack Welch, the outspoken and colorful former CEO of General Electric, likes to use to describe a bidding war for a company...

Buyers Get Leverage Jitters

Jun 1, 2005 12:00 PM, By John B. Levy

OK, so maybe trees or their real estate equivalent, leverage don't grow to the sky. But for a while there, it sure looked to the commercial real estate...

Features

Drowning in Data

Jun 1, 2005 12:00 PM, by Parke Chapman

Commercial real estate is swimming in data, thanks chiefly to the decade-long rise of public REITs and the growth of the commercial mortgage-backed securities...

Riding the TIC Wave

Jun 1, 2005 12:00 PM, By Joe Gose

Virtually non-existent only a few years ago, the tenant-in-common structure has become the hottest investment vehicle in real estate. TICs, which allow...

Area Review

Betting on a Rebound

Jun 1, 2005 12:00 PM, By Nicholas Yulico

Rental rates in the San Francisco office market remain half of what they were in the boisterous dot-com days. But a surge in leasing activity has propelled...